Digital EGT Gauge for your Aircraft and Enhance your Flight

As with anything we want to do in this world, we must learn how to do it. We attend college or a trade school when we want to learn a career and then earn a degree or certificates. Such proves our efforts and shows we are familiar about the topic we studied. We often take classes, too, when we want to drive a car or especially a large truck. Again, we earn a certificate or diploma. It shows we know how to operate the vehicle and are familiar with how it works. And, if we want to operate an even more complicated machine, be it a boat or airplane, we have no choice - we must take classes. They are much too complicated for the average person. We have to know how those machines work and how to monitor their function and progress. That is why we need licenses to control them.

When you board an airplane and peek in on the cockpit or see one on film or television, you can’t help but notice all the instruments, colors, lights, buttons, numbers, and switches. It’s so much bigger than the dashboard of a car. Intimidating, even. Are they all significant? Do all those gauges and numbers mean something? Yes, in fact, they do. In some cases, the larger the plane, the more factors to consider, so the larger the number of instruments and buttons. The same often applies to the engine. The more advanced the engine, the more complicated the factors, and so, the more superior the gauges.

Engine Data Management Systems

Engine data management systems, simply put, are those gauges, instruments, and other tools that oversee and log engine data. They monitor the engine(s) during flight and provide data that allows the pilot to keep the engine(s) functioning, decide when maintenance is required, establish overall reliability, and determine ultimate duration. As referenced, one must be educated on how the plane functions in order to fully understand each management system.

EGT is an acronym for exhaust, gas, and temperature. Such are extremely important engine diagnostic parameters. Some gauges measure both EGT, as well as pressure, RPM, and flow and fuel levels. They are best for smaller or home-built planes. Larger planes most likely have such gauges built in.

EGT Aircraft Gauges

All in all, it requires experience and knowledge with an aircraft, engine, and an entire system in order to be able to properly and efficiently use an EGT Aircraft Gauge to its greatest potential. It measures and monitors the temperature of the exhaust using altitude, ambient air temperature, power setting, and cylinder compression. Mechanical conditions such as cylinder leakage and ignition timing, and combustion events influence readings, as well. Simply put, it’s a thermometer for the engine.

An EGT Gauge can often show you, before you can actually tell, that something may be wrong or malfunctioning with your airplane. And, with experience, you may be able to see and set-forth patterns that help you diagnose issues before your airplane shows signs. And, a knowledgeable pilot is a safe pilot.

J.P.Instruments was founded in 1986 in Huntington Beach, California, USA. J.P. Instruments is leader in aircraft engine data management systems and has added a whole line of reliable and cost effective aircraft instrumentation to its name.